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antonim ,

Non-native English speakers usually don't make such mistakes. Natives write "by ear" (which is how you initially learn your first language), so they can mix up homophonic words, whereas non-natives usually learned to write at the same time as they learned to speak the language, and they also had the rules and words explained 100% explicitly from the start.

antonim ,

Native speaker here, never had any issues with this or any other common homophone in English.

Ok? I didn't say all natives make such mistakes, it's just that they're substantially more prone to make them, "by design". Non-natives will make various spelling mistakes too, just of different sorts, rarely those based on homophones.

“Learning by ear” is just another excuse for laziness and/or ignorance

But that's how every native language is learned, it's not "laziness". You listen to your parents and learn to speak years before you develop usable reading abilities. Writing is learned afterwards, and largely bases itself on your knowledge of the oral form of the language. This applies to any language written in an alphabet (i.e. disregarding Chinese and similar).

Pick up books, read extensively, and like anyone else not marinating in cultivated ignorance, you too can utilize the language effectively and correctly.

If this humble advice is directed at me - thanks a lot, but we've been talking about native English speakers, which I am not.

antonim ,

It seems F-droid won't accept the new versions, as the Suite has been acquired over a month ago and they haven't accepted any new versions, all Simple apps I've checked haven't been updated for 3-4 months; in fact, I can't find Simple Gallery there anymore at all.

The ads are probably against F-droid's TOS.

antonim ,

Damn, how did I even manage to miss that Simple apps have been bought off? I've used them for years and am still subscribed to the reddit community...

Some people suggest the action could possibly be deemed illegal, by breaking the licence the project was made under.

https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241#issuecomment-1837452672 - the dev's explanation, and replies which discuss the legal issues

https://old.reddit.com/r/fossdroid/comments/1893j2p/simple_mobile_tools_is_about_to_be_acquired/

antonim ,

Huh, perhaps the problem is on my end then? But I can neither find it by searching the repository, nor is it on the list of my installed F-Droid apps, even though all the other Simple apps are there. And I'm 100% certain I'm not using the Play Store version.

antonim , (edited )

Simple Gallery hasn't and couldn't have received the privacy-intruding update yet, as its last update was in October, according to the data on Play Store, i.e. before the acquisition. People are complaining about Simple Messenger, for now.

My own install of Gallery is from F-Droid, just as yours, yet I don't see it there anymore. It's not visible on the F-Droid website, unlike e.g. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.keyboard/

Maybe you can see it if you're using some repository other then the default one? Or your repository data hasn't been updated recently? Idk, just guessing.

antonim OP ,

Good question. I found what seems to be the original version on Facebook here (link to full image).

antonim ,

Putting aside the added part, I've seen this quote ascribed to Tolstoy more than once, even though it should be painfully obvious it's not a real Tolstoy quote to anyone who read his books. So frustrating. It's a dumb quote too.

antonim ,

"I'm sorry, but I cannot summarise this article as that goes against the Lemmy bot use policy"

antonim ,

Where did you hear about that? It sounds odd, because surely Google could've filtered out the swearwords, and at the end of the day users still had to solve the captcha correctly sooner or later if they wanted to post.

antonim OP ,

I do have to admit it's a bit disheartening to post that pic, and then people react to it by looking how to use the objects to 'hack' the nature of reality.

antonim OP ,

Kind of, lol. But you can see the difference in the type of hacking. The objects are only meant to hack your own, private reality. That's what the picture is meant to address, that aspect of our lives that can't be translated into external and/or mechanical utility.

Besides, the issue of energy scarcity that the replies are working off could be fixed or at least minimised through realistic technological and political/economic solutions, with no need for magical objects that defy the laws of physics. But no law or real invention can be guaranteed e.g. to give you good dreams.

antonim OP ,

Yes, thank you :D (I mean, of course I'm exaggerating a bit by claiming I'm disappointed, it's more of a... "conceptual" disappointment)

antonim ,

explanation for the tech illiterate (me)?

antonim ,

Fan service

This article may be written from a fan's point of view, rather than a neutral point of view.

hmm

antonim ,

Oldest gen-alphas are currently 13.
First generation beta child will be born on 2025

These generational labels make increasingly little sense.

boomer = older than me

zoomer = younger than me

as simple as that

antonim ,

Even the most fascist redfash still would have killed the nazis.

They'd kill who they define as nazis. I find that tankies' (especially Hexbear) definition of nazism doesn't entirely correspond to mine or that of most other people. So this is not something to be super optimistic about.

antonim ,

I hope this does go to show you that English really isn’t total random chaos like it’s often portrayed

Too late, there's already the mandatory "three languages in a trenchcoat" comment.

antonim ,

Anyone knows which book they're referring to? It sounds a bit like Chekhov.

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